Recent content by nced

"HW95 and shoots very nice at 17 ft lb" LOL......my new .177 HW95 (bought a few years ago) shot 7.9 grain CPLs @ "too hot for me" 890fps (14 ish fpe) "from the box" after a bore clean and a few settling in shots. I deliberately "detuned" the gun to my personal power level preference of 850fps...

Years ago I shot two "high power" piston guns, a .25 cal Beeman Kodiac springer and a .20 cal Beeman Crow Magnum rammer. The Kodiac was shooting 29 grain domes at 30fpe and I had no issues with cocking and shooting and the shot cycle & accuracy was acceptable, however the size and weight was...

"How much brain they got???" About this much............ I've seen squirrels do mental gymnastics to figure out how to get seeds from a bird feeder. I had one of those spring loaded "squirrel proof" bird feeders that covered the seed ports with the weight of the squirrel. It worked well...

"Never had a Leupold or Burris scope killed by a springer" I've never owned a "Leupy" but both my brother and I had a 6x Burris Compact scope "lose zero holding ability" when mounted to our .177 Beeman R9s. The issue with the Burris was that it took over a month for Burris to correct the issue...

Consider that any benefit gained from slightly better resistance to wind drift (if any) is the fact that the field target game involves putting a pellet through a killzone (as small as 3/8" diameter for the closer targets) set at varied unmarked distances from 10 yards to 55 yards. One of the...

I have had worse but the Winnies from Tractor supply OK from the .177 HW95 LOL.....look at the Crosman Destroyer EX 18 yard "bucket and sticks" group compared to both the "now un-obtanium" die lot marked and dated 7.9 grain Crosman Premier and the Tractor Supply "Winnie" group..........

LOL.....that's exactly how I use my scope! I only use holdover aiming so I mark my AO or sidewheel with symbols representing which "reticle feature" to use for aiming after sharply focusing at different distances. When I first started using "hold over aiming" decades ago I was using a 4-16x40...

" jsb hit right at the point where the vertical recticle goes from heavy to thin on the R9 with the scope on 9x. " Hummm.....perhaps the scope is canted in the rings........... Years ago I also had the same issue where the poi would shift from "center to right" at different distances till...

Mine are simple. Outdoors I simply have some stacked logs like this........ Indoors I use an Outers .22 bullet trap..........

Personal opinion based on HW95 & Beeman R9 break barrel spring piston airguns used during field target matches but I have no first hand idea about PCPs, however I'm assuming that even atmospheric conditions will affect pellet flight. I know some field traget shooters that even had "tape aquarium...

Don't have a clue because I have no use for large, heavy "thumpers", however the UTG adapters do work well on my HW springers that do this with other mounts, even when the base screws are excessively torqued. The UTG adapters are cheap at less than $15 (doesn't cost a lot to try) unlike the ...

Hummm........a while back I tried a set of short adapters of similar geometry and they didn't clamp properly to the round receivers of my HW springers. How would these adapt to a round HW95 receiver dovetail? Seems that they would have the similar "round receiver clearance issues". Also, even if...

Hummmm.....I use these UTG adapters on my HW95 and R9 and they do work well, Single piece base, stop pins, well made, works better than the BKL one piece mount I used for a while. Inexpensive and all that's needed is a set of suitable Weaver/Picatinny rings...

LOL.....years ago when linving in West Virginia and shooting field target matches at the DIFTA club in Damascus, MD an open class shooter had was working on a "real high score" and somehow lost track of the "turret revolutions" and missed the killzone "big time". He was dismayed to see that he...

Yep.....I've only attended one hunter class field target matches since these restrictions........ "Notice - Match limited to 25 participants due to governor restrictions. Lanes restricted to one individual - self scoring. Pay match fee at event.". LOL.....I don't need to spend $15 to do the...